Home Brewing Kombucha RunningBugFarm.Com Ingredients: Coffee Filter/ or Cloth Cover 1 Quart Glass Mason/Canning Jar with Lid & Band Unchlorinated Water SCOBY KT Sugar Cane Plain Black or Green Tea Please refrigerate right away & use in no less than 2 days. Always start with clean utensils, jars & pots. Cleanliness is critical. You do not want anything else growing in your tea! It can get bugs, larvae & mold if you are not careful in every step of the process! Chlorinated water can kill the Kombucha microorganisms. Distilled,well or good bottled water works best. Never use any metal except stainless steel. Glass is an excellent choice. Do NOT use ceramic! Organicblack or green tea is the best choice. Do NOT use tea with flavorings or oils. Use only 100% tea. No additives. Organic sugar cane is alsopreferred over non organic. Be sure your sugar is from sugar cane & not beets. Genetically engineered beets are now allowed & in use on the market. You won't know they're GMO beets because the ingredients will say "sugar". Do not use artificial sweeteners, agave or honey. Sugar cane is the only acceptable source of food for the culture. These instructions are for making a 1 quart mason/canning jar of Kombucha. Heat approx. 3 C of water until boiling. Turn off heat & add 3 tsp. of loose leaf tea or 3 tea bags of the plain tea of your choice. Add more or less depending on how strong you like your tea. Steeping for 3 - 4 min. is the average time for black or 2 - 3 min. for green. Make sure you cover the pot while your tea is brewing. You don't want anything getting in your tea that shouldn't be there! After you remove the tea bags, let the tea cool (covered) to room temperature. Once it is cool, add approx. 1/4 C of sugar cane. Make sure the sugar dissolves completely. We do this step when the tea is luke warm so the sugar dissolves easier. Once the sugar is dissolved & the brewed tea is at room temperature, add the brewed tea to your mason jar. Next you add the SCOBY & the liquid (K-tea) it is floating in. You now need to cover the jar but it has to be able to breath. A coffee filter or custom fabric jar cover work great for this. Place the mason jar band over the filter/cloth & screw on the band. Save the flat lid for later. Find a nice dark place that is at room temperature. Store the Kombucha brew undisturbed fore 5 - 7 days. the longer you let i sit the more vinegary it gets as the culture eats the sugar. ON the 5th or 7th day you can start the process all over again by using either the newly formed SCOBY, the Mother SCOBY or both plus approx. 1/4 C of your Kombucha tea. Place the flat lid on the mason jar containing your finished Kombucha tea (KT) & screw on the band. Place the KT in your refrigerator. It should be slightly effervescent & vinegary. You can make KT over & over again form your first starter! Soon you'll have enough to share! Enjoy! RunningBugFarm.com